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March 4, 2015

WARWICK – Mount St. Charles head coach Ray Leveille had joked late during a Tuesday afternoon preparatory practice that he figured most folks would agree that his club had no chance against Division I foe finalist Bay View Academy in the inaugural R.I. State Girls Open Tournament.

In fact, he mentioned, given that line of thought, that “everybody expects us to lose by 30, but that's why you play the game.”

March 3, 2015

WOONSOCKET – The way first-year Mount St. Charles’ mentor Ray Leveille views the situation, his girls should be rather cool and collected when they face second-ranked Bay View Academy in the inaugural R.I. Girls’ Open Tournament tonight at 6 at the Community College of Rhode Island-Warwick gymnasium.

After a surprising capture of the Division III-North title (with a superb 15-3 mark), the Mounties dropped a semifinal decision to Narragansett, which went on to snatch the D-III state championship.

March 3, 2015

WARWICK – Judging by the number of girls’ basketball teams that turned out for Monday night’s selection show at the Warwick Mall, the inaugural 16-team open state tournament figures to not suffer from a lack of interest.

March 2, 2015

By

Michael Conochan

The season is winding down. We are entering the final week of the regular season. After that, conference tournaments will start the following weekend. Selection Sunday is March 15th, less than 2 weeks away. Shortly after Selection Sunday, all will be right in the world. People will be printing out brackets and filling them out at their desk. Inevitably, Jan from accounting will win your office pool by picking her favorite mascots and everyone will be in disbelief. It has been an exciting regular season thus far and boy do we still have the best ahead of us.

February 28, 2015

By

BRENDAN McGAIR

PROVIDENCE – No one, not even the head coach who scooped up LaDontae Henton after he opted out of his national letter of intent to Dayton, could have imagined that he could end up among the most decorated players in Providence College basketball history.

February 27, 2015

PROVIDENCE – It was hard to tell if the absence of head coach T.J. Ciolfi made a significant difference in Woonsocket High’s 66-39 loss to La Salle Academy in a R.I. Division I Tournament semifinal at Rhode Island College’s Murray Center on Friday night.

The reason: The third-seeded Rams played almost perfectly in their fast-break offense, especially in the opening session.

February 27, 2015

WOONSOCKET – You can debate whether or not the two-game penalty of ejection from a high school basketball game is harsh. The point is that when No. 10 Woonsocket takes the floor at Rhode Island College Friday night against third-seed La Salle Academy, the Villa Novans will do so without their head coach.

February 26, 2015

EAST PROVIDENCE – As difficult as it was to swallow Burrillville High’s 58-48 loss to unbeaten and top-ranked Middletown Wednesday night, head coach Samantha Stanton couldn’t help but smile at the way her Broncos battled tooth-and-nail.

February 26, 2015

EAST PROVIDENCE – Perhaps a half hour before top-seeded Mount St. Charles was to face No. 2 Narragansett High in a R.I. Division III Tournament semifinal on Wednesday night, head coach Ray Leveille explained just how good the senior guard tandem of Chelsea Sahagian and Abby McKanna were.